Norway

Ljosland skisenter

10 / 100 Powder Score
Thin Weather Partly cloudy
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
2°C
Max wind
14 km/h
Elevation
512–781 m
Across
1.1 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Tue 10 Nov Drizzle 0 0 to 4 14
Wed 11 Nov Drizzle 0 1 to 3 19
Thu 12 Nov Snow 0 −3 to 1 21
Fri 13 Nov Partly cloudy 0 −3 to 1 23
Sat 14 Nov Snow 0 −2 to 3 22
Sun 15 Nov Drizzle 0 −3 to 3 21
Mon 16 Nov Fog 0 −4 to −1 20

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Ljosland skisenter, in Norway, runs from 512 m at the base to 781 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 9 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 378 cm of snowfall a season, 208th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 30th in Norway. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2024/25 (266 cm), reached 70% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 111 cm.

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
9
Run length
3.1km
Lifts
4
Vertical
269m
Top 781 m · base 512 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 26%
East 47%
South 5%
West 23%

73% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Novice 1 · 0.1 km
Easy 4 · 1.4 km
Intermediate 3 · 1.3 km
Advanced 1 · 0.3 km

Lift types

  • Platter4

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
378cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
266cm
The middle winter of the 12: 385 cm. The best: 525 cm.
World rank
208
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
30
of 135 in Norway
Elevation rank
61
Highest to lowest, of 135 in Norway. The centre point sits at 616 m, 61 m above the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Bortelid Skisenter9.5 km361 cm246
Fidjeland Skitrekk30.0 km486 cm87
Sirdal Skisenter32.0 km449 cm110
Ådneram Skitrekk36.0 km486 cm87
Bjørnestad Skisenter45.0 km363 cm243

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 72% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Norway (75%). In amount, March brings 80 cm, more than the median of 47 cm.

92cm
Dec
111cm
Jan
95cm
Feb
80cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 378 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2024/25 with 266 cm; the biggest was 2019/20 with 525 cm (2.0 times as much). For 34% of the 135 ski areas in Norway the leanest winter was 2025/26; here it was a different one.

391
322
294
397
379
525
478
289
486
440
266
267
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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